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Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - The government provided free,
universal, and compulsory education until age 16 and further free education
until age 18. UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
statistics recorded 100 percent enrollment of children of primary school age
and over 90 percent for those of secondary school age. SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
There were reports that children were trafficked into the country and forced
to work as domestic servants, beggars, pickpockets, drug couriers, or in
sweatshops and restaurants. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2000 [43] While recognizing the efforts
made by the State party in the area of education, the Committee remains
concerned at the increasing incidence of truancy and the number of drop-outs
from school in some of the Territories, especially the Turks and Caicos Islands and Montserrat. Music
saved the street children of Venezuela – could it work for Scotland too? In the violent slums of Venezuela,
free classical music lessons have transformed the lives of hundreds of
thousands of children and created an unlikely production line of virtuosos. For 32 years El Sistema
(the System) has tackled the “spiritual poverty” among some of South
America’s poorest street children by teaching them to play Bach, Beethoven
and Mahler in orchestras. Now El Sistema is coming to Britain, where project organisers hope that it will rescue a generation of
children on one of Scotland’s most notorious housing estates. Street
children given a new life ANTOINE’S STORY - Hardcore hoodie
Antoine is 19 and has spent most of his life on the streets. He has sold
drugs and worked as a male prostitute to survive. When you read what the
young Londoner – now studying to be a barrister – has endured, you may
understand why. … CHELSEA’S STORY - Chelsea, 17, started selling
crack when she was 11 but with the help of tuition from Kids Co is now due to
take her GCSEs. … A new book, White Cargo, tells how
children as young as 10 were swept off the city's streets and sent with
convicts to work in America several months before the first shipment of
African captives arrived in 1619. Authors Don Jordan and Michael Walsh say
hundreds of homeless children were rounded up and held in the Bridewell, a workhouse and prison near Blackfriars Bridge. But, to disguise the fact these
children were to be enslaved, officials sold it as giving the underprivileged
a new life. In truth, the City of London wanted to get rid of their street
children while the merchants behind the company colonising
Virginia wanted slave labour. Call for
action to protect street children The Northern Ireland Commissioner
for Children and Young People, Patricia Lewsley,
has today called for action to protect children who are being used to beg for
money on the streets of Belfast. Ms Lewsley said she was shocked by continuing reports of
children begging at the behest of what appears to be organised
gangs. Street
Kid: One child's desperate fight for survival - Judy Westwater I am wary of trivialising
her story by reducing it to a list of horrors, but here's a short version as
contained in the publicity blurb: "Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist
father as a child and kept like a dog in his backyard, Judy Westwater suffered in a Manchester orphanage run by nuns
before being taken to South Africa, where she ended up living wild on the
streets of Hillbrow and joining the circus. Determined that her childhood
experiences should in some way give meaning to her life, Judy has in
adulthood worked tirelessly to help homeless children in South Africa - in
the very places she herself suffered." The book ends when Westwater, aged 17, returned to the UK from South Africa,
to seek her mother and sisters. The reunion was anything but loving. It is
then noted that Westwater inherited a small legacy
and she used this to start projects with street children in South Africa,
Mexico and elsewhere. His
killers were street children, fearless and brutal with no remorse Ricky and Danny Preddie were court veterans, loyal only to each other and
a gang of thugs. Danny Preddie
had bullied Damilola and is said to have coveted
his silver jacket. Ricky is believed to be the gang member who stabbed their
victim with a broken beer bottle. “Juking” was a
punishment administered to anyone who showed the Young Peckham
Boys disrespect or resisted their demands for mobile phones, baseball caps,
trainers and cash. She was a teenage orphan living on
the streets of Nairobi when a man approached her and promised her work in the
United Kingdom. He told her she would be working as a house girl. True to his word, her
"savior" brought her into the U.K. -- but instead of placing her
with a family the man took her to a brothel, where she was systematically
raped, beaten, and forced to work as a prostitute. Three months later, when the
16-year-old Kenyan girl became pregnant, she was forced to continue sleeping
with a succession of men until she was almost due to give birth. The heavily
pregnant teenager was then removed from the brothel, driven out of the town
where she had been held, and dumped many miles away on the streets of
Sheffield. Consortium
for Street Children: Briefing Paper [DOC] There are however three main
groups of young people in the Street
Children And Crime In The UK: A Case Of Abuse And Neglect Four street work projects that
provide information and support to young runaways in the The state of
children: facts and figures In the Running the Risk Young People on the Streets of Britain Today REVIEWS – SYNOPSIS - Based on current work with
young runaways this survey looks, in particular, at the work of four
Children's Society projects in Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Gwent. The report examines the causes of running away and the problems face by those who run - some of them as young as 11 years old. It has been revealed that children run away for different reasons: abuse and neglect, changes in family relationships, lack of support or parenting and economic stress - to name a few - and each of these different circumstances may require a different response. 100,000
children homeless says Shelter A new report by homelessness
charity Shelter
reveals that there were around 100,000 homeless children in the WHY ARE WE STILL HEARING ABOUT
HOMELESS PEOPLE DYING ON OUR STREETS? VIEW FROM THE EDGE - Once a young person is homeless, things can rapidly deteriorate. Many homeless people suffer from mental health problems and are not receiving help. Hartshorn believes this is a particular problem for younger men who tend to bottle their problems up. Homelessness
and Education: Research from Britain and America PANEL ABSTRACT - The last fifteen years have
seen an unprecedented increase in homelessness in both Britain and the United
States. While young single people sleeping on the city streets is often the
most visible form of homelessness, the number of homeless households with
young children is growing substantially. The relationship between
homelessness and education has received relatively little attention on either
side of the Habitat
UK national report 2001 UK CONTEXT - Homelessness: 105,000
households were legally defined as homeless in 1999. The Centrepoint Reveals Exploitation Of Homeless Young People “Nearly a third of homeless young
people surveyed admit to suffering from stress, illness and depression due to
their debts, many believe they are prevented from a better future because
they owe money they cannot repay. The RSU
has already invested over £2 million from its Special Innovation Fund to put in
place education, training and employment schemes around the country that have
helped over 2,500 former rough sleepers to make the move to independent
living. The children and young people we
work with1 The city street is a place of
refuge and a place of danger. It is an alternative to rural poverty and to
family violence, but it is home too to those who would take advantage of
vulnerable children, perhaps to exploit them financially, or sexually. Some
children live there - eat, play, work and sleep. New Government drive to
help young runaways A quarter of those who run away
will sleep on the streets, and some will survive through begging, stealing
drug dealing and prostitution. As many as 10,000 runaways suffer physical or
sexual abuse while they are away from home. Every year 77,000 British children
under 16 run away from home for at least one night. Many flee physical or mental abuse at home,
and a quarter end up sleeping on the streets with
some surviving through begging, stealing, drug dealing and prostitution. 1. The linked article has been
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